Justus Theodor Valentiner
Justus Theodor Valentiner (born August 9, 1869 in La Guaira , Venezuela , † May 26, 1952 in Göttingen ) was a German ministerial official and university curator.
Life
Theodor Valentiner was the son of the merchant and German consul in Caracas Hugo Valentiner (1831-1915). He studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1889 he was reciprocated in the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . When he was inactive , he switched to the La Sapienza University , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the University of Marburg . After the legal traineeship in 1893, he went on study trips to England, France, Holland, Belgium, Italy and Greece. After his preparatory service and the assessor exam, he entered the Prussian civil service in 1896. He completed the government traineeship with the government in Wiesbaden and passed the examination as a government assessor in 1899. After he had been with the district administrators in the Hanau and Wiesbaden districts , he came to Düsseldorf in 1903 as a member of the government . From 1906 to 1916 he was district administrator in the district of Schlüchtern . During the First World War he served in the German Army in 1914/15 . In 1916 he was district administrator in the Burgdorf district .
In 1917 Valentiner was called up as an unskilled worker in the Prussian State Ministry . The following year he was appointed lecturing council . In 1919 he took on the role of general representative of the state government and government commission in the deliberations of the national assembly on the draft of the Weimar constitution . In the same year he was promoted to Ministerialrat and appointed deputy permanent representative of Prussia in the Reichsrat . In 1920 he was promoted to ministerial director.
From 1921 to 1932 Valentiner was curator of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . At the end of 1932 he moved to the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Education as Ministerial Director . On February 1, 1933, he was deputy Prussian representative to the Reichsrat and on May 5, 1933, he was temporarily retired. From 1933 to 1937 he was now only a substitute curator of the University of Göttingen. He died at the age of 83.
His daughter Elisabeth (1900–1991) was an art historian and married to the art historian Walter Paatz . The two parts of the Valentiners art collection ended up on permanent loan in the art collection of the University of Göttingen .
Fonts
- My memories of our parents Hugo Valentiner and Sofia Valentiner , Christians, 1971.
Awards
- Honorary Citizen of the City of Göttingen (1932)
- Honorary member of the University of Göttingen
- Dr. rer. pole. hc
- Dr. phil. hc
- Dr. med. hc
- Secret Government Council (1918)
literature
- Bernd Moeller: Stations in the history of the University of Göttingen 1737–1787–1837–1887–1937: a series of lectures , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988
Web links
- Valentiner, (Justus) Theodor www.bundesarchiv.de
- Minutes of the Prussian State Ministry, Volume 12 / II (pdf; 2.14 MB)
- Valentiner, Justus Theodor. Hessian biography. (As of July 24, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 64/839.
- ↑ District of Schlüchtern administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke)
- ^ Anne-Katrin Sors: Die Provenienzen Göttingen paintings of the 19th century in: Christian Scholl: Academic rigor and artistic freedom: the paintings of the 19th century in the art collection of the University of Göttingen , University Press Göttingen, 2013, p. 40 ff.
- ↑ Honorary Citizens of the City of Göttingen at www.stadtarchiv.goettingen.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Valentiner, Justus Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Valentiner, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative officer and university curator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Guaira , Venezuela |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1952 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |